I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
To please people is a great step towards persuading them.
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!
Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Gold is a deep-persuading orator.
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.
. . . next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
